Sometimes 4: The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allen Poe's classic story is the latest piece of classic literature to find its way into Mike Bennett Sometimes. If you're not familiar with the show but are a lover of Poe, to download this free audio mp3 file, click here:

Sometimes 4: The Masque of the Red Death

This will take you direct to the mp3 which you can listen to live or download by clicking 'save' in your browser menu. You'll hear the reader, me, wittering on for a bit, then the story starts after about 7 minutes.

If you're not (strictly) a Poe fan, but a person who enjoys my podcasts, the whole process needs no introduction.

Music comes from A Band Called Quinn.

I hope you enjoy it.

Episode 18: First Complete Version Done.

The first, but no doubt not the last. There's a lot of mood, tension, fear and desire to get into this little package. Getting this right is going to take innumerable re-takes and endless editing. It might be late, so if it's not there on Tuesday, be patient. It's coming (no pun intended).

Episode 10: It’s Erotica, Jim: But Not As We Know It.
Already live on Podiobooks.com and due to click into life on Libsyn at 6.00 pm Tuesday December 26th 2006 (GMT), Episode 10 kicks off part two of One Among the Sleepless.
Obviously I can’t go into story content here due to the fact that some of the blog readers haven’t heard episode 10 yet, but I can say that it’s the first episode with a ‘sexually explicit’ warning slapped on it.
What does this mean? Well, I personally don’t think it’s going to set pulses racing: the presence of Wayne completely puts the kibosh on that. But one has to warn people all the same; there’s the real possibility that some people may be offended. There’s also the more likely possibility that they may be listening in public, and that may cause certain… responses. Clothes are shed and various bits of the human anatomy are mentioned in a somewhat perky condition. I don’t think anyone is going to find themselves in a perky state as they listen to it, but you never know. Obviously if you’re listening at home, this shouldn’t prove too problematic either way. However, if you’re intending to listen to this on the train or on the bus commuting to or from work, be warned. I don’t, as I say, think that gentlemen will need to discreetly place their bowler hats on their laps, but you may feel a certain reddening of the cheeks. After all, it’s not every day that you find yourself on the 7.30 train to Paddington listening to a bizarre sexual entanglement. Or is it?
As the waiter says with a sly wink as he plonks a plate of oysters in front of you… ‘Enjoy.’

And by the way, the Christmas pudding was delicious.